Actually we went to the zoo. Tante G from playgroup organised a trip to the zoo for all the lovely playgroup families last weekend, then everyone came back to our place and ate pizza, apple cake (my first from a German recipe) and had a few drinks. The weather was fabulous...though a very thin jumper wasn't quite warm enough. The Monkey loved the bike ride to the zoo as it is as far as she can manage and she had a fantastic tiger experience.
Herr Fitz was totally crazy happy as he got to speak German all day and night instead of just reading it in his office. Our lovely new neighbours upstairs joined us for the evening which meant our dinner party stats were:
loads of adults
tonnes of kids (9 to be exact)
3 continents (Europe, Australia, South America)
4 languages
Even more impressive (for all those extremely geographically nerdy folk like me) is that if illness hadn't prevented a couple of families from coming we would have had all the continents apart from Antarctica. We did try for the complete 7 as we visited the penguins at the zoo and invited them for dinner but, they said they tried vegetarian pizza once before and they'd never do it again.
Since the big excursion it has been Autumn holidays here. Didn't summer holidays just finish? I suppose that you have to take all the warmer weather holidays when you can. That said it was 0 degrees C one morning this week. Luckily kindergarten doesn't take a break as I have got very used to doing all my running around in the morning without the kids. Our other things like violin and gym has taken a break so we have had a nice relaxing week. As we have had a bit of spare time and the weather early in the week was good we have re-embraced the "drop in". This is something Papa B loves but something that I don't often do as it is pretty easy to call before you go somewhere when you have a car. Following the example of fellow Australians Miss F and Mr M who did a "drop in" on us last Sunday whilst riding around we "dropped into" our friends around the corner on Monday and played in the garden. That is the kids played and the Mums 'chatted' ie attempted to talk in a common second language whilst saving the kids from any fatal accidents involving stairs, gates, bikes and fellow players.
We gave into the cooler weather and turned the heating on a couple of times this week. We are still trying to work out the best way to use central heating so there is a fair bit of knob twiddling, waking up really cold and entering the house all rugged up and exclaiming "It feels like high summer in here!" Hopefully we'll get the knack soon.
Throw in a Happy Birthday to Aunty K, bit of light reading from the Prussian House of Deputies for Herr Fitz, attempting to get my computer fixed for me (no photos of those thrilling moments), the general chaos that is meal times and getting everyone out of the house on time, dressing up, a Bear and Mum trip to the library and Monkey, Mouse cubby house building with Dad it has been a really great week.
Boy, those penguins are such snobs! As if eating oily fish is better than vege pizza. Jerks.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, that looks like an awesome cubby house. My parents used to have an amazing modular lounge (which lives on still in a certain house on Leader St) which had metre-large, square cushions which made fantastic walls. Plus if you piled all four on top of eachother, you could jump on and see how long you could balance. Good times!